The California ground squirrel is a living thing because it can respond, grow and develop, it's made out of one or more cells and it can reproduce. Here are more details.
Four characteristics
Respond: When the weather gets hotter, it moves to a cooler space.
Grows and Develops: When it is a new born, it can't open it's eyes but,and at the age of one they are mature.
Made out of one or more cells: It has blood cells, nerve cells, and other cells.
Reproduces: At early spring. The female will have five to eight babies.
Four needs
Food: plants, vegetables, nuts, seeds, cactus, eggs, berries, sometimes small insects and animals. In the winter, they store the food in their under ground burrows.
Habitat: In under ground burrows in the deserts of California
Air: It breaths air by it's nose and through their noses.
Water: They get water from the berries, insects, cactus, eggs, and vegetables.
A scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia It is an animal
Phylum:
Chordata It has a back bone+spinal cord
Class:
Mammalia It is a mammal. It gives birth to its young and provides milk to young.
Order:
Rodentia It is a rodent like: mice, rats, other squirrels, beavers, guinea pigs, and hamsters. It has incisors for gnawing.
Family:
Sciuridae The famliy of Sciuridae includes: tree squirrels, flying squirrels, ground squirrels,chipmunks, marmots, and prairie dogs.They are closely connected to the Mountain beaver and the dormouse. They are native to America, Eurasia, and Africa.
Genus:
Otospermophilous California ground squirrels genetically realted to Rock squirrels and Baja rock squirrels.
California ground squirrel
Four needs
A scientific classification
It is an animal
It has a back bone+spinal cord
It is a mammal. It gives birth to its young and provides milk to young.
It is a rodent like: mice, rats, other squirrels, beavers, guinea pigs, and hamsters. It has incisors for gnawing.
The famliy of Sciuridae includes: tree squirrels, flying squirrels, ground squirrels,chipmunks, marmots, and prairie dogs.They are closely connected to the Mountain beaver and the dormouse.
They are native to America, Eurasia, and Africa.
California ground squirrels genetically realted to Rock squirrels and Baja rock squirrels.
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facts from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Ground_Squirrel
http://www.ehow.com/about_6661967_ground-squirrel_s-diet.html
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/facts-about-california-ground-squirrels.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otospermophilus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sciuridae